Some people are terrified of message boards, and I don’t blame them. Just last night I was browsing through the enormous gaming forum NeoGaf and saw this 100-plus reply thread discussing my Video Game Commandments article. I quietly backed away without even a glance inside.

Nothing good can come from me joining that discussion, though no doubt it is simply dozens of people speculating as to whether I am a mere genius, or some kind of transcendent super-being representing the ultimate in human evolution. Mankind must find this answer on its own, I cannot reveal it to them.

Anyway, if you hate message boards because of the kind of anonymous, over-aggressive ass-hattery that goes on, you may wonder why any sane person participates at all. The reason is that occasionally, magic happens.

This is one of those occurrences.

A young man drops in, eager to show off his web comic, presumably the first one he has ever, ever made. If you then scroll down to the bottom of the first page, you’ll see other members being to post their own episodes, taking the man’s own art in strange and wonderful new directions, surely to his delight.

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